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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Angel Print

I sent this little water color angel to some folks I know who are having a really rough time right now. The caption was, "May you be cared for as though held in the arms of an angel."

I loved her so much, I made some mono-prints of her.

One of my favorite printing techniques uses watercolor paint and mylar. I use frosted mylar, and just paint the image in reverse. Most Windsor Newton watercolor paints work just fine, but a few colors are based on dyes rather than on pigment, and don't transfer to the paper well.

I will be teaching this technique in my print class, so I needed to try out all my colors.

They all worked!

Using my baby press, I printed the images on 90# watercolor paper that had been soaked in water for about 20 minutes.

The next step is to print the lines over the images with an intaglio plate made with a ball point pen on mat board.